#Xcode doxygen how to
#Xcode doxygen install
#Xcode doxygen code
#Xcode doxygen free

Set the destination directory to where ever youвЂ™d like your documentation generated.

Set the working directory to your project directory. The first two fields we need to set are the working directory and the destination directory. Now that we have Doxygen installed, start the application and weвЂ™ll make our first Doxyfile.Дoxygen opens up in wizard mode.

#Xcode doxygen install

To get it, go to the Doxygen downloads page and download the package for your version of OS X.ДЄfter youвЂ™ve downloaded the application, install it in your /Applications folder. Doxygen is packaged with a decent GUI application for OS X.

#Xcode doxygen how to

A Doxyfile is a configuration file that instructs Doxygen how to extract comments from your code. WeвЂ™re going to add a Doxyfile to your project. IвЂ™ve spent a lot of time telling you how to comment your code, but I have yet to show you how to generate the documentation.

#Xcode doxygen free

Feel free to tinker with this script and add scripts of your own. Still, imperfect as it may be, this gives us a leg up on writing our comments.

#Xcode doxygen code

It canвЂ™t parse Objective-C code itвЂ™s just a collection of regular expression matches. You can navigate these placeholders using control-/ or by selecting the menu item Edit > Select Next Placeholder. While it canвЂ™t write the comments for you, it does help you out by adding placeholders for all the places you need to add comments. If youвЂ™ve selected a method or function prototype, it will write the necessary and tags for you. It will rewrite the selection with a Doxygen comment. What good is this to us? To use this script, highlight a piece of code and fire off your keyboard shortcut or select the script from the scripts menu. To better illustrate this process, take a look at this video:

Set the errors popup menu to Display in Alert.

Set the output popup menu to Replace Selection.

Paste the contents of doxygen.rb into the text field on the right side of the window.

You can select whatever key command youвЂ™d like. IвЂ™ve set the shortcut to control-option-d. YouвЂ™ll notice that you can also enter a keyboard shortcut. Then press the + button again, this time selecting the New Shell Script command.

Position the new submenu where you want it in the list, then select the submenu.

Create a new submenu and name it Doxygen Comments.

Using the + button in the lower left of the window, select New Submenu.

This will open the Edit User Scripts window.

In Xcode, select the Scripts > Edit User ScriptsвЂ¦ menu.

Once you have the script downloaded, take the following steps:

To get started, download the following ruby script: WeвЂ™re going to add a script that allows us to select a piece of code in a header file and add a comment template for it. If youвЂ™ve never noticed this menu before, take a moment to see whatвЂ™s available. User scripts live in the script menu on XcodeвЂ™s menu bar between the Window and Help menus. There are a number of ways we could add this functionality IвЂ™m going to show you how to add a helper script as an Xcode User Script. ItвЂ™s possible to extend Xcode to aid us in creating our comments. Luckily we donвЂ™t have to do all the work ourselves. ThatвЂ™s a lot of extra work, and if commenting means extra work, weвЂ™re less likely to document our code. Worse than that, we need to repeat the name of each parameter in the tag. For each parameter in a function or method, you need to add a tag. For example, you need to remember that you need to use the tag to document the return value. Unlike the comments you may be adding to your code now, Doxygen comments have a certain structure.

The first problem to tackle is the additional overhead incurred by writing all these comments. What I want to cover in this post is how to incorporate documenting your code into your workflow. In part I I covered how to comment your code with javdoc style comments that can be extracted into html documents or other types of output. Read Using the Doxygen Helper in Xcode 4 for a work around. This approach no longer works with Xcode 4.